# List of vice presidents of the United States by education

Most vice presidents of the United States have undergone higher education at an American university, college or law school.

## List

| No. | Name | Home state | Took office | Left office | Party | School | President(s) |
| 1 | John Adams | Massachusetts | April 21, 1789 | March 4, 1797 | Federalist | Harvard College | George Washington |
| 2 | Thomas Jefferson | Virginia | March 4, 1797 | March 4, 1801 | Democratic-Republican | College of William & Mary | John Adams |
| 3 | Aaron Burr | New York | March 4, 1801 | March 4, 1805 | Democratic-Republican | Princeton | Jefferson |
| 4 | George Clinton | New York | March 4, 1805 | April 20, 1812 | Democratic-Republican | Studied law with William Smith | Jefferson/ Madison |
| | zVacant | | April 20, 1812 | March 4, 1813 | | | Madison |
| 5 | Elbridge Gerry | Massachusetts | March 4, 1813 | November 23, 1814 | Democratic-Republican | Harvard College | Madison |
| | zVacant | | November 23, 1814 | March 4, 1817 | | | Madison |
| 6 | Daniel D. Tompkins | New York | March 4, 1817 | March 4, 1825 | Democratic-Republican | Columbia | Monroe |
| 7 | John C. Calhoun | South Carolina | March 4, 1825 | December 28, 1832 | Democratic-Republican/ Democratic | Yale | J. Q. Adams/ Jackson |
| | zVacant | | December 28, 1832 | March 4, 1833 | | | Jackson |
| 8 | Martin Van Buren | New York | March 4, 1833 | March 4, 1837 | Democratic | Kinderhook Academy and Washington Seminary studied law with Peter Silvester, Francis Sylvester and William P. Van Ness | Jackson |
| 9 | Richard Mentor Johnson | Kentucky | March 4, 1837 | March 4, 1841 | Democratic | Transylvania University | Van Buren |
| 10 | John Tyler | Virginia | March 4, 1841 | April 4, 1841 | Whig | College of William & Mary | W. Harrison |
| | zVacant | | April 4, 1841 | March 4, 1845 | | | Tyler |
| 11 | George M. Dallas | Pennsylvania | March 4, 1845 | March 4, 1849 | Democratic | Princeton University | Polk |
| 12 | Millard Fillmore | New York | March 4, 1849 | July 9, 1850 | Whig | New Hope Academy, studied law with Judge Walter Wood, Cayuga County, New York | Taylor |
| | zVacant | | July 9, 1850 | March 4, 1853 | | | Fillmore |
| 13 | William R. King | Alabama | March 4, 1853 | April 18, 1853 | Democratic | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Pierce |
| | zVacant | | April 18, 1853 | March 4, 1857 | | | Pierce |
| 14 | John C. Breckinridge | Kentucky | March 4, 1857 | March 4, 1861 | Democratic | Centre College, Princeton University, Transylvania University | Buchanan |
| 15 | Hannibal Hamlin | Maine | March 4, 1861 | March 4, 1865 | Republican | Hebron Academy, Studied law at the firm of Samuel Fessenden | Lincoln |
| 16 | Andrew Johnson | Tennessee | March 4, 1865 | April 15, 1865 | Democratic | None (Self-taught and received instruction from his wife, Eliza McCardle Johnson) | Lincoln |
| | zVacant | | April 15, 1865 | March 4, 1869 | | | A. Johnson |
| 17 | Schuyler Colfax | Indiana | March 4, 1869 | March 4, 1873 | Republican | Common schools of New York City and New Carlisle, Indiana | Grant |
| 18 | Henry Wilson | Massachusetts | March 4, 1873 | November 22, 1875 | Republican | Academies in Strafford, Wolfeboro, and Concord, New Hampshire | Grant |
| | zVacant | | November 22, 1875 | March 4, 1877 | | | Grant |
| 19 | William A. Wheeler | New York | March 4, 1877 | March 4, 1881 | Republican | University of Vermont | Hayes |
| 20 | Chester A. Arthur | New York | March 4, 1881 | September 19, 1881 | Republican | Union College, State and National Law School | Garfield |
| | zVacant | | September 19, 1881 | March 4, 1885 | | | Arthur |
| 21 | Thomas A. Hendricks | Indiana | March 4, 1885 | November 25, 1885 | Democratic | Hanover College | Cleveland |
| | zVacant | | November 25, 1885 | March 4, 1889 | | | Cleveland |
| 22 | Levi P. Morton | New York | March 4, 1889 | March 4, 1893 | Republican | Shoreham Academy, Shoreham, Vermont | B. Harrison |
| 23 | Adlai E. Stevenson | Illinois | March 4, 1893 | March 4, 1897 | Democratic | Illinois Wesleyan University, Centre College | Cleveland |
| 24 | Garret Hobart | New Jersey | March 4, 1897 | November 21, 1899 | Republican | Rutgers College | McKinley |
| | zVacant | | November 21, 1899 | March 4, 1901 | | | McKinley |
| 25 | Theodore Roosevelt | New York | March 4, 1901 | September 14, 1901 | Republican | Harvard College, Columbia Law School (did not graduate) | McKinley |
| | zVacant | | September 14, 1901 | March 4, 1905 | | | T. Roosevelt |
| 26 | Charles W. Fairbanks | Indiana | March 4, 1905 | March 4, 1909 | Republican | Ohio Wesleyan University | T. Roosevelt |
| 27 | James S. Sherman | New York | March 4, 1909 | October 30, 1912 | Republican | Hamilton College | Taft |
| | zVacant | | October 30, 1912 | March 4, 1913 | | | Taft |
| 28 | Thomas R. Marshall | Indiana | March 4, 1913 | March 4, 1921 | Democratic | Wabash College | Wilson |
| 29 | Calvin Coolidge | Massachusetts | March 4, 1921 | August 2, 1923 | Republican | Amherst College | Harding |
| | zVacant | | August 2, 1923 | March 4, 1925 | | | Coolidge |
| 30 | Charles G. Dawes | Illinois | March 4, 1925 | March 4, 1929 | Republican | Marietta College, University of Cincinnati College of Law | Coolidge |
| 31 | Charles Curtis | Kansas | March 4, 1929 | March 4, 1933 | Republican | Topeka High School, studied law with Aderial H. Case | Hoover |
| 32 | John Nance Garner | Texas | March 4, 1933 | January 20, 1941 | Democratic | Vanderbilt University | F. Roosevelt |
| 33 | Henry A. Wallace | Iowa | January 20, 1941 | January 20, 1945 | Democratic | Iowa State University | F. Roosevelt |
| 34 | Harry S. Truman | Missouri | January 20, 1945 | April 12, 1945 | Democratic | Spalding's Commercial College (did not graduate) Kansas City Law School (did not graduate) | F. Roosevelt |
| | zVacant | | April 12, 1945 | January 20, 1949 | | | Truman |
| 35 | Alben W. Barkley | Kentucky | January 20, 1949 | January 20, 1953 | Democratic | Marvin College, Emory University, University of Virginia School of Law | Truman |
| 36 | Richard Nixon | California | January 20, 1953 | January 20, 1961 | Republican | Whittier College, Duke University School of Law | Eisenhower |
| 37 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Texas | January 20, 1961 | November 22, 1963 | Democratic | Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Georgetown University Law Center (did not graduate) | Kennedy |
| | zVacant | | November 22, 1963 | January 20, 1965 | | | L. Johnson |
| 38 | Hubert Humphrey | Minnesota | January 20, 1965 | January 20, 1969 | Democratic | University of Minnesota, Louisiana State University, Capitol College of Pharmacy | L. Johnson |
| 39 | Spiro Agnew | Maryland | January 20, 1969 | October 10, 1973 | Republican | Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore School of Law | Nixon |
| | zVacant | | October 10, 1973 | December 6, 1973 | | | Nixon |
| 40 | Gerald Ford | Michigan | December 6, 1973 | August 9, 1974 | Republican | University of Michigan, Yale Law School | Nixon |
| | zVacant | | August 9, 1974 | December 19, 1974 | | | Ford |
| 41 | Nelson Rockefeller | New York | December 19, 1974 | January 20, 1977 | Republican | Dartmouth College | Ford |
| 42 | Walter Mondale | Minnesota | January 20, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | Democratic | Macalester College, University of Minnesota | Carter |
| 43 | George H. W. Bush | Texas | January 20, 1981 | January 20, 1989 | Republican | Yale | Reagan |
| 44 | Dan Quayle | Indiana | January 20, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | Republican | DePauw University, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) | G. H. W. Bush |
| 45 | Al Gore | Tennessee | January 20, 1993 | January 20, 2001 | Democratic | Harvard University, Vanderbilt University | Clinton |
| 46 | Dick Cheney | Wyoming | January 20, 2001 | January 20, 2009 | Republican | University of Wyoming | G. W. Bush |
| 47 | Joe Biden | Delaware | January 20, 2009 | January 20, 2017 | Democratic | University of Delaware, Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.) | Obama |
| 48 | Mike Pence | Indiana | January 20, 2017 | January 20, 2021 | Republican | Hanover College, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) | Trump |
| 49 | Kamala Harris | California | January 20, 2021 | January 20, 2025 | Democratic | Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) | Biden |
| 50 | JD Vance | Ohio | January 20, 2025 | Incumbent | Republican | Ohio State University (BA), Yale University (JD) | Trump |